News Posts

The restored Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is now open, and a new self-guided tour—available as part of the Museum's Explorer app, or on our website—highlights exhibits and places around the Museum with a connection to TR, who was President from 1901 to 1909. In this post, the sixth in a series, we visit the Wading Birds diorama, in the Leonard C. Sanford Hall of North American Birds.

The restored Theodore Roosevelt Memorial is now open, and a new self-guided tour—available in the Museum's Explorer app, or on our website—highlights Museum connections to TR, who was President from 1901 to 1909. In this post, the fifth in a series, we explore the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial and the family's early ties to the Museum.

Six exquisite miniature dioramas in the new exhibition Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Cultureilluminate diverse methods of farming around the world—including in cities. Learn more about the diorama set in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Human languages first appeared between 30,000 and 100,000 years ago, but the question of how languages spread and evolve is still under investigation. In this podcast from a recent SciCafe, join Museum curators Peter Whiteley and Ward Wheeler as they discuss how techniques used in genetic analysis are being applied to anthropology, language shifts, and key patterns in social evolution.